Chicago White Sox

A Major League Baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois USA.

Founded: 1901 (charter American League member)

Formerly known as: Chicago White Stockings

Home ballpark: Comiskey Park, Chicago.

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American League pennants won: 1901, 1906, 1917, 1919 and 1959

World Series championships won: 1906, 1917

Franchise history

Originally founded in the city of St. Paul, Minnesota, as a team in the minor [Western League]?. When the Western League changed its name to the [American League]? and claimed major league status, the St. Paul franchise was relocated to Chicago.

Sadly, the club is best known for the infamous "Black Sox" scandal of 1919, in which eight of its players were barred from organized baseball for life for taking part in a plot by gamblers to "fix" the World Series.

Players of note

Baseball Hall of Famers: [Luis Aparicio]?, [Luke Appling]?, [Eddie Collins]?, [George Davis]?, [Red Faber]?, [Carlton Fisk]?, [Nellie Fox]?, [Ted Lyons]?, [Ray Schalk]?, [Ed Walsh]?, [Early Wynn]?

Current stars: Magglio Ordonez, Frank Thomas

Not to be forgotten: Dick Allen (AL MVP 1972), Ozzie Guillen, Sherm Lollar, Jack McDowell (AL Cy Young Award, 1993), Minnie Minoso, Billy Pierce

Retired numbers: #2 Nellie Fox, #3 ([Harold Baines]?), #4 Luke Appling, #9 Minnie Minoso, #11 Luis Aparicio, #16 Ted Lyons, #19 Billy Pierce, #42 Jackie Robinson, #72 Carlton Fisk